Current ADAS systems can improve vehicle safety directly influencing its dynamics, reducing the impact of human error while driving. These functionalities have a high impact on the complexity of each unit installed on the car, potentially increasing the development time. In this work, a Hardware in the Loop testing bench and methodology for Autonomous Emergency Braking system is presented, aiming to enable a faster system development process. A commercial production brake by wire unit has been installed on a real-time driving simulator. The AEB functionality of the unit is activable in real-time during the simulation, by the means of a customizable control strategy. Two different AEB controllers have been https://saemobilus.sae.org/content/2022-01-0099/ 3/3

Diffusion of electric and hybrid vehicles is accelerating the development of innovative braking technologies. Calibration of accurate models of a hydraulic brake plant involves availability of large amount of data whose acquisition is expensive and time consuming. Also, for some applications, such as vehicle simulators and hardware in the loop test rig, a real-time implementation is required. To avoid excessive computational loads, usage of simplified parametric models is almost mandatory. In this work, authors propose a simplified functional approach to identify and simulate the response of a generic hydraulic plant with a limited number of experimental tests. To reproduce complex nonlinear behaviours that are difficult to be reproduced with simplified models, piecewise transfer functions with scheduled poles are proposed. This innovative solution has been successfully applied for the identification of the brake plant of an existing vehicle, a Siemens prototype of instrumented vehicle called SimRod, demonstrating the feasibility of proposed method.

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In the automotive world, Hardware in the Loop (HiL) methodologies are used to speed up the design and calibration process of the various mechatronics components installed on the vehicle. Installing production parts on advanced driving simulator enables the performance assessment in realistic scenarios, including a test driver earlier in the design process. The scope of this work is to evaluate the effect of ABS and ESC system, replicating their influence on the steering wheel. A brake by wire production system has been installed on a static simulator, equipped with a EPSiL steering bench, capable of accurately replicate tie-rod forces on a production steering unit. Full brake, sine steer maneuvers have been carried out both on real vehicle and on virtual environment. The system showed its capabilities of replicating the same functionalities of the real vehicle, extending the static simulator potentialities to support the activities on calibration and test of vehicle systems.

AEB, autonomous emergency braking, is an active safety system designed to prevent vehicle frontal collision. The most diffused AEB systems are based on simple Bang Bang control logic, which could often avoid, or at least mitigate collision effects, but their effectiveness can still be improved by increasing system repeatability. The aim of this study is to model and test an innovative AEB control logic that will increase system reliability by compensating for the non-immediate response of the braking system to braking requests. Using a hardware-in-the-loop test bench with two different braking systems implemented, the new controller was tested simulating the CCRs and CCRm scenarios, used by Euro NCAP for AEB system assessment. By compensating for the delay introduced by the response of two different braking systems, the innovative control logic stops the VUT, Vehicle Under Test, at the desired safety distance from the GVT, Global Vehicle Target.